How many baby Hartwig’s soft-furred mouses are in a litter?
A Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse (Praomys hartwigi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 171 grams (0.38 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Praomys). An adult Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse grows up to a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse or Hartwig’s praomys (Praomys hartwigi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Cameroon.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian harvest mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat weighting only 69 grams
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Serra do Mar grass mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Fawn-colored mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Santa Cruz mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- Columbian ground squirrel
- True’s shrew mole
- Coruro
- Western red-backed vole
- Red rock rat
- Sable
- Numbat
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Midas free-tailed bat weighting 45 grams
- Little red kaluta weighting 32 grams
- Lesser spear-nosed bat weighting 41 grams
- Naked-eared deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse weighting 37 grams
- Golden spiny mouse weighting 42 grams
- Handleyomys alfaroi weighting 33 grams
- Himalayan water shrew weighting 33 grams
- Somali elephant shrew weighting 32 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse weighting 34 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Rock vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rufous mouse opossum gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut tree mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alpine chipmunk gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)